Racist teabags: Finland has them, too

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And they have all the same memes going as their southern US counterparts, too. Notice what color the woman is, and what color are her assailants?

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Why everyone should have a cat

Why? Because they’re better protectors than dogs:

Even mean, hungry alligators are no match for a nice, cuddly kitty.

And don’t even get me started on bears.

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Music for a Sunday: Undercover on the edge, I move alone

Out of reach, out of love, stepping out of bounds…

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Wankers of the Week: Dial N for Nincompoop

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Ring-ding-a-ling…Teh Stoopid is calling. You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. Fortunately, you’ve got me to pick up…and this is who rang my chimes this week:

1. Gregory Fucking Hartnell. Screaming homophobic Red Menace resurrectors, anyone? I strongly doubt that there are enough anti-choice assholes in Victoria, BC, to take this one seriously, but I thought I’d list him anyway, just so y’all could have a good laugh at his expense.

2. Jeff Fucking McGuire. Not all cops are assholes with badges, but this one is. If you can’t apologize to the innocent people whose lives you wrecked during the Toronto G-20, you might as well turn in your uniform. You’re not serving and protecting anyone; you’re a menace to the public.

3. The Fucking Grauniad. Yes, that’s right, the UK Guardian, that once reliable paper of the centre-left, is listed this week. Why? For confusing Avaaz, an international NGO, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In other words, they passed off a popular international groundswell against right-wing media…as the heavy hand of the state at work. (Item: The channel in question would be overwhelmingly supportive of the current SupposiTory government.) That’s not witty, that’s shitty reporting. Get some original thinking in there, you twits, and quit trying to be cute.

4. Barbara Fucking Bush. Way to make a fetus fetishist of your son, Babs–inflicting the remains of a miscarriage on him. That is the most grotesque fucking thing I’ve read all week; it’s right up there with Rick Fucking Santorum making his family fondle a fetal corpse instead of releasing it to the morgue to be buried. You just don’t do things like that to a kid–it fucks them up.

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5. George W. Fucking Bush. I did say it fucks them up, did I not? Dubya is so fucking “pro-life” as a result of his mom’s grotty fetus-in-the-pickle-jar stunt that he has no problem ordering people to be slowly drowned. Or bragging about it. This is what psychopathic war criminals are like, folks. All concern-trollish about the contents of wombs, and all callous indifference once the kid is out of utero, especially if it’s non-white and comes from some other country. And they don’t see one iota of their own massive cognitive dissonance, either. I bet he thinks “Thou Shalt Not Kill” applies ONLY to fetuses, and that every single person born (outside of his own small circle, of course) is fair game. PS: STFU about Venezuela, and just FOAD. Srsly, Shrub, no one fucking cares what you “think” anymore. Least of all down there. Go drink yourself insensible and quit running your idiot mouth. You’ve embarrassed and horrified your country enough with the pickled-fetus thing and your two unnecessary wars already.

6. Jill Fucking Montgomery. Why?

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That’s why. Millions of cancer-stricken and birth-deformed Vietnamese no doubt know the score MUCH better than head-in-a-sandhill Jill.

7. Tucker Fucking Carlson. Impersonating Keith Olbermann? Well, we all knew Bowtie Boy was no real journalist; it’s why he dresses up as one but never delivers the goods. Still, isn’t this going a bit far?

8. Ann Fucking Coulter. Just for being on Dubya’s reading list (as befits his chief, glib, Ivy League pseudo-intellectual fluffer), the Coultergeist deserves a permanent place on everybody’s wank-list.

9. Elie Fucking Wiesel. Same link as #8. Approving of Dubya’s plans for Gulf War II is NOT the act of a decent humanitarian, or worthy of a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Get thee up there with Henry Fucking Kissinger.

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10. Greg Fucking Thompson. If you’re gonna hand-pick your successor from the so-called Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation (which, incidentally, does NOT represent the average Canadian taxpayer, but Big Fucking Bidness), you might not want to promote him using taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded Commons resources. Eh?

11. Lou Fucking Dobbs. The #1 racist hypocrite in US media finally lands his FUX Snooze gig. Only took the old bastard a year to do it, too. Fuck you, Lou.

12. Ted Fucking Nugent. I’m still waiting for the Wango Tango Wacko to start sucking on his loaded gun. Right now, as he has done throughout his career, he’s just plain sucking, period. But hey, as long as he does his shitting in the Washington Moonie Times, and not his pants, who cares?

13. John Fucking Gilliand. This one’s bat-shit nutso, but he’s still a damn sight saner than #12. Or #14, come to that…

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14. Glenn Fucking Beck. Hate the Jews much? Next thing we know, the Human Hemorrhoid will be telling us that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a real, honest-to-gawd Jewish conspiracy. He’s already dredged up every other crappy antisemitic book in the library, so why stop at that one? PS: Saying you aren’t, when no one accused you of it, is basically saying you are.

15. Fucking Amazon.com. Guess who won’t be buying anything of theirs until they get rid of that odious self-published guide to “pedosexual” activity? And no, this is NOT a free-speech issue. Because there is NO “safe”, let alone legal, way for an adult to rape a child, and there should be no “guide” purporting to reveal it, either.

16. Philip Fucking Greaves. See above. ’nuff said.

17. Bryan Fucking Fischer, again. Somehow, I don’t think he’s talking about Sarah Fucking Palin and her “mama grizzlies” when he says grizzly bears are a “curse” that should be wiped out. I say he and his ilk are the real curse. And if they’re gonna go killing anything, let it be themselves.

18. Chris Fucking Wallace. His dad must be rolling in his grave. Not only is Mike Wallace’s son a lousy journalist (working for FUX, where else?), he’s a skeezy, scuzzy, skeevy, scummy excuse for a man. I never thought I’d see the day I felt sorry for Mike Fucking Gallagher, who hawkishly jeered Cindy Sheehan on the loss of her son to Gulf War II, but Chris Fucking Wallace made me do it. Fuck you, Chris, fuck you very much.

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19. Joe Fucking Warmington. Excuse me, Joe, but when did Remembrance Day become synonymous with chickenhawks cheerleading war by kissing veterans’ asses? Oh, only NEVER, that’s when. It was ALWAYS about peace…otherwise, what’s the point of remembering a war? The idea of remembering all that horror is not to repeat that motherfucking bullshit, dumbass. David Miller was right when he said that war was depravity. So’s your shitty column.

20. Kristina Fucking Schröder. Like I so often say, conservative women are conservatives first, women dead last. That’s why, if it’s a contest between a progressive man and a conservative woman, I’ll vote for the dude; he’ll at least strive to make things better for everyone, including me. A conservative woman? Pfui Teufel. All they care about is the moneyed interests, same as their chauvinistic male counterparts. And they’ll misrepresent feminism, too, while they’re at it. It’s the same in Germany as anywhere else: Make a conservative woman a government minister, and she’ll only throw her entire sex under the bus. Was für ‘ne Unverschämtheit!

21. Christie Fucking Blatchford. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the fucking kitchen and don’t light the fucking stove. And if you can’t face student protest, don’t go on campus with your inflammatory bullcrap. But don’t spout off about “censorship”, because nobody censored you. You wimp out, you own your wimphood. Just like the Coultergeist, Christie Blatchford is a big, fat, bullying wimp who can’t face the Anti-Racist Action activists who came, not to censor, but to call her on her shit. And yes, she is RACIST.

22. Louie Fucking Gohmert. Yes, he’s ba-ack. And this time, for sheer absurdity. I can tell you as a woman that there is NO cause so compelling that I’d ever consider inserting a tampon bomb to wage suicide terrorism for it. That’s just too repugnant to even contemplate. But apparently not for Gomer…because he’s a Repugnican, and they’ve cornered the market on crazy.

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23. Gretchen Fucking Carlson, same link as above. “Over sexed youth” use tampons because of the feeling? What kind of mental virgin comes up with shit like that? A properly placed tampon can’t (and shouldn’t) be felt! Has it ever occurred to her that we use those things because they’re invisible and less cumbersome than maxipads? No, no…too obvious and not prurient enough.

24. Erika Fucking Winchester. No, it’s not a bit racist to refer to your black mailman as a nigger. Not a bit. Just like it’s not a bit crazy to repeatedly rant and assault people. Which this woman has also done.

25. Carolee Fucking Bildsten. Whacking a cop with a dildo is outré enough. But a dildo still attached to a harness? That’s not kinky, that’s perverted. (Also hilarious.)

26. Sarah Fucking Palin. Remember how she bragged about taking advantage of Canada’s single-payer healthcare? Well, this makes her look an even bigger fucking hypocrite than that did. Not to mention a bigger fucking idiot. If you really want to prevent abortion, the thing to do is not destroy Obama’s very modest healthcare reforms, but to USE BIRTH CONTROL, YOU IDIOT.

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27. Cindy Fucking McCain. Shameful doubletalk. Or should I say doubletweet?

28. John Fucking Shimkus. Never mind God; it’s MAN who is destroying the Earth, and we already know what the word of a man is worth. Never mind what some book says; that’s the word of man, too. And man has no business passing himself off as a god. When my own neighbors are living on top of radioactive waste, more than a million cubic metres of it, and global warming is a reality, and the polar bears are starving because the Arctic pack ice is no longer forming properly, then all the “Word of God” won’t save you. Stupidity, basic human stupidity, is the real devil here.

29. Tony Fucking Blair. Stay out of my country and its affairs, you fucking poodle. And don’t go supporting the SupposiTories, either.

30. Miguel Fucking Hernández Souquett. You shit on the Bolivarian Revolution, the Bolivarian Revolution shits right back on you. How’s that for reciprocity! And for those anglo media whores wringing their hands over this dumbass shitter and the so-called infringement on his freedom of speech, may I remind you that I’d probably be arrested for wearing a shirt reading “Fuck Stephen Harper”, and my US friends likewise for one reading “Fuck Bush”. Hell, people were arrested for much less offensive wear than that during the last G-20 summit here, no slogans necessary. And BRUTALIZED, too.

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And finally, to Mikey the Twitter Tr
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. Yes, Mikey, I hate you…for standing me up. If you really have my phone number, why don’t you call it and see what happens? If you really have my e-mail address, why don’t you use it and see what response you get? And if you really have my home address, why not show up in person? I guarantee you that a good time will be had…well, by me, anyway. Your mileage will almost certainly vary. (See above image for illustration.)

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Evo gets a visit

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No, these two priests weren’t there to give Evo the last rites. He was just in for exploratory knee surgery, and they showed up to wish him well. Get back on your feet soon, Evo!

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A Remembrance Day roundup

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I’ve already pretty much given my own take as to what this day means to me, so I’m gonna shut up about me and just point you to some others’ thoughts instead…

TorontoEmerg has a nurse’s take on another nurse’s letter home at war’s end in 1918. November 11 of that year gave us the date not only of the war’s end, but of a day for the remembrance of war’s costs. This letter is particularly sobering as its author has no time to rejoice about peace; she is already nursing the casualties of the “Spanish” influenza epidemic that followed on the heels of the war. A reminder that wars bring famine and pestilence in their wake. And that’s as good a reason as any to work for peace. Be sure to read the last paragraph and take it to heart.

Uruknet, meanwhile, has a stark reminder that war is NOT over, and some don’t want it to be. Of course, they’re not the ones being killed. The extremely asymmetric casualty counts in the Israeli assault on Gaza should give us all a lot of pause. It’s easy for the Israeli soldiers in the video to laugh; they’re not the ones facing the terror of daily bombing. They’re the ones doing it. And they seem to think it’s some fantastically large fucking video game.

A Creative Revolution points out something else interesting: those who want wars most, aren’t the ones fighting them. And their motives have fuck-all to do with freedom. (I’ll just squeak up to add that we thank those who fought for our freedoms the best not by mouthing platitudes once a year, but by exercising those freedoms, daily, and putting the boots to apathy. In this way, we ALL become veteran freedom-fighters.)

Your Heart’s on the Left has some forgotten history that deserves to be remembered: the connection between those who refused to fight imperialist wars, and the democratic revolutions of the immediate post-WWI era. There was a League Against War and Fascism operating during the 1930s, which made an active connection between the causes of freedom and democracy.

Also worth noting: the mealy-mouthed lip service of so-called antifascism during World War II. Those same mushmouths could have saved themselves a much bigger war if they’d supported the democratic, leftist-anarchist-Republican side in Spain, back when it counted. Had they done so, they could have thwarted Hitler and Mussolini before they started gobbling up turf. Instead, they actively criminalized the effort to aid the Spanish democrats, and let the fascists aid Franco unopposed. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and its Canadian sibling, the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, had to do their recruiting underground. A shameful, much-glossed-over chapter of our North American history.

Kirbycairo has a short, to-the-point bit on why we should all read Frantz Fanon, the great psychiatrist who diagnosed the pathology of the neocolonial mind. The last war fought on Canadian soil was that of 1812; every war we’ve been in since then has been either imperial or neocolonial. It’s time to stop that insanity!

Ms. Magazine has a short but comprehensive piece on the other casualties of war: the homefolks, particularly wives and children of soldiers. Is it any wonder women are at the forefront of the struggle for peace? They have the most to lose, on every front.

And finally, the Wikipedia entry for the white peace poppy offers up some interesting nuggets: “The Royal British Legion has no official opinion on the wearing of white poppies, stating that it ‘is a matter of choice, the Legion doesn’t have a problem whether you wear a red one or a white one, both or none at all’.” Quite the contrast to the Royal Canadian Legion’s harsh anti-peace-poppy stance. But the last line alone is the best: “In 1986 British prime minister Margaret Thatcher expressed her ‘deep distaste’ for the symbol.” Considering that the Milk Snatcher preferred war over negotiations when it came to the Malvinas, that’s no surprise. Talking sensibly would have done nothing for her “Iron Lady” image. She just had to out-macho (and out-fascist) those hateful generals of the Argentine Junta, by gawd, and she did. More meaningless death ensued. And since to be damned by the devil is to be truly blessed, I think that’s all the more reason for me to crave a white peace poppy to wear on this date next year.

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I did not want to write this tonight…

…but something forced my hand.

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There is simply no defence for selling something like this, and yet Amazon.com is doing just that.

There is simply no way that this book could be construed as “mere literature”. This is not Lolita. It is not a novel about a child-molester gone ’round the bend, rotting in jail while struggling to justify his “love” for a “nymphet”. It is a guide to breaking the law; it is a how-to book on violating the trust and bodily integrity of children. It is not only morally wrong, it’s illegal. So the “freedom of speech” excuse doesn’t wash.

And if anyone thinks “free speech” = “anything goes”, remember who else found out the hard way, this week, that that is NOT the case. I’ll remind you that Flip Benham’s “Wanted” posters still had a bit of legal wiggle room left in that they did not openly say “kill this abortion doctor”. But they really pushed the envelope, and in the opinion of the court that tried and found Benham guilty, they pushed it too far.

This book is not even on the same level as Flip Benham’s odious, insinuating posters. It leaves no room for doubt. It even says it is a “guide” to the crime. It may as well be titled How to Rape a Kid.

So, what’s Amazon’s problem? Just gotta make money at any cost? Sexually abused kids are apparently fair game. Just the cost of doing business with a shitty, drecky smut-peddler. Well, hell…as long as no child of Amazon.com’s is made to pay, where’s the harm, eh?

I’d be lying if I said this was a complete shock to me. Other legitimate businesses have also taken pedobear cash. When I was at university, many moons ago, NAMBLA had ads in RFD, a magazine for gay rural Wiccans.* It was a shocking and troubling sight. While I knew my gay friends well enough to know they would never answer such ads (my best friend even said, quite emphatically, “If I’m gonna be gay, I’ll do it with someone my own age”), it was sickening to know that this organization not only existed, it was disseminating Goddess only knew what information to “boy-lovers”.

Even worse, such information as NAMBLA and this sick fuck disseminate is doing direct harm to a lot of innocent people. And no, not all of them are kids. Yes, I’m talking about the LGBT community.

Every progressive straight ally knows, or should know by now, what a nightmarish struggle LGBTs have gone through (and in many places, are still going through) in order to be able to adopt children. A study just released today found that lesbian couples were the least likely, of all family heads, to abuse their children. And several studies have come out showing that children of same-sex parents, whether adopted or biologically related, do not have more psychological problems than those of heterosexual parents. In fact, many are better adjusted!

But the laws of the land often don’t consistently reflect that reality. Far more often, they reflect the fear and hatred of the “gay pedophile”, a creature that doesn’t exist outside the fever-swamp of right-wing indignation. If you’re gay, you’re a person who prefers consenting adults (or in the case of gay teens, a similar-aged partner) of your own sex–period. You do not go forcing yourself sexually upon children, who by legal definition cannot be considered equivalent, and consenting, to an adult.

In fact, the overwhelming majority of pedophiles are male adults who self-identify as heterosexual. Even men who molest boys often fit this description. It’s not a “gay” thing at all.

But trust a pedophile to muddy those waters, the same that my queer friends have worked so hard to clarify.

And trust Amazon not to give a shit, as long as they make a few quick bucks off a self-published e-book. After all, it’s not their lives that will be irrevocably harmed by some sick bastard. And it’s fair to say, judging by their blithe brushoff, that they don’t even feel their bottom line will be significantly affected by all this.

Let’s prove them wrong. Let’s boycott them (or do what Otto suggests, if you own their stock) until they do the right thing. We owe it to our gay friends, and to their kids, too.

Especially their kids.

*Ironically, RFD’s Wikipedia entry notes: “The magazine was founded after a group of gay men in Iowa attempted to purchase an advertisement in the countercultural Whole Earth Catalog about the organizing of a gay-centered commune, Running Water. The editors of Whole Earth rejected the request on the basis that they did not run gay advertisements.” Gay ads sure seem tame now, all things considered.

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What delegitimizes Israel?

Well, for starters, Bibi Netanyahu is doing a terrific job of it. As are his Likudnik supporters:

Democratic tolerance for dissent: Ur doin it rong.

UPDATE: Mondoweiss has more on the chokehold part of that incident.

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This is what cowardice looks like

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Hey, Mike: I see what you did there. Perhaps you’d like the Indiana Attorney General’s office to see it, too? That could certainly be arranged. What you did qualifies as cyberstalking under US law, just so you know:

The United States Communications Decency Act was a piece of legislation that imposed heavy punishments upon anyone who:

(i) in interstate or foreign communications –

(A) by means of telecommunications device knowingly –

(ii) initiates the transmission of, any comment request, suggestion, proposal, or other telecommunications which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person.

(E) make repeated telephone calls or repeatedly initiates communication with a telecommunication device, during which conversation or communication ensues, solely to harass any person at the called number or who receives the communication.

Emphasis added.

I see at least four points in there that apply to your pissy little tweet: Annoy, abuse, threaten or harass. That IS what you were trying to do, and don’t you deny it.

Well, annoyed and harassed I may well be. I’m always disgusted when some titty-baby coward who doesn’t even have the guts to debate me like a man goes around calling me a bitch behind my back. But threatened? By someone who can’t even properly post the URL to my blog? Ha, ha, FAIL. My personal info is not publicly available, and even if it were, I doubt you’d have the skills to ferret it out.

And who are you planning to distribute it to? Your eight measly followers? Double-ha-ha-FAIL. I can pick up as many on any given day, and real ones, too. DECENT ones. In other words: Not like you. Maybe that’s what’s got your undescended testicles in a knot? Here’s a sure-fire popularity-increasing tip: Try not being such a fucking asshole. You want women to like you? Don’t go around calling them bitches. Man up and talk to them, to their faces, CIVILLY, even if you don’t agree with what they’re saying. If you can do that, there might be hope for you. But threatening to distribute their personal info, which you can’t get, to stalkers? Just because you have a small penis? Dude, that’s just childish. And pathetic. And oh yeah, ILLEGAL.

Go ahead, Mike, make my day. I dare ya. Got the cojones to comment now, or are you still gonna go the whiny passive-agressive, Angry Inch route?

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Quotable: John Steinbeck on toxic culture

“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.”

–John Steinbeck

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